Anti-Aging Tycoon Bryan Johnson Sounds Alarm Over India’s Pollution Crisis
“It’s like in the middle of a fire,” Bryan Johnson, the US tech millionaire known for anti-ageing routines, has voiced concern over India’s pollution levels, calling those a serious threat to health and longevity.
Johnson, who founded Kernel, a US-based company that has developed a non-invasive neuroimaging technology and a payment gateway called Braintree, visited India for the first time in December last year and again in February this year. Recalling his time in India, he released a video on Tuesday drawing attention to the country’s high levels of air pollution on the social media platform X. He said spending just a short time outdoors in Indian cities could be equivalent to smoking several cigarettes per day due to the alarming air quality. He also expressed surprise that more global attention was not being paid to the issue.
“I was shocked by how normalised Indians are to poor air quality. Breathing the air is like smoking multiple cigarettes a day. Yet no one wears a mask or has air filters in their indoor environments,” he said.
The entrepreneur, who has made headlines for his ambitious age-reversal regime related to strict diets, clinical exams, and experimental remedies, stressed that clean air is the most basic prerequisite for fitness. He puzzled how populations had been expected to prioritise well-being whilst essential environmental safety became a hazard.
Johnson said, “One of our biggest concerns coming to India is the air quality. I think they have right now the worst air quality in the entire world, and it’s interesting that nobody is wearing a mask.” He continued, “It’s awful, it’s like in the middle of a fire.”
“Why Indian leaders haven’t declared air pollution a national emergency yet,” he asked.
At the same time as in Mumbai in February, Bryan Johnson walked out of a podcast with Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath because of poor air pleasant. He later stated the room circulated out of doors air, making his purifier ineffective, and mentioned he advanced a rash and throat infection at the 1/3 day of his visit.